Sat.u.r.day.
Today is the day we’re going to finally march into [Devil race’s town].
I went to get the sword I left with Masamune-san first thing in the morning.
「You’ve come, huh. The sword is ready.」
Masamune-san said so and from him, I received the sword–a beautiful, black sword.
┌─＜Appraisal＞────
│[Black Belt Sword]
│A sword which serves as the proof that the Sword Art was approved.
│Becomes strong by absorbing the user’s habit.
│Ability: Raise the power of [Wind Blade].
│ Increases Attack Power towards attributed monsters.
│ Converts the loaded Magic Power into sharpness.
│Rarity: ★★★★★
│Trial:
│ Make a contract with a Wind Spirit 0/1
│ Make a contract with a Water Spirit 0/1
│ Make a contract with an Earth Spirit 1/1
│ Make a contract with a Fire Spirit 0/1
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Oh, a new ability is added.
Transforms Magic Power into sharpness, huh.
Wow, it’s seems like it will cut well!
「Thus, the sword is completed with this, take good care of it.」
Masamune-san said so.
「Eh? There’s still the next trial, isn’t there?」
It’s to make contracts with Spirits; though it seems troublesome, I should be able to do it.
「You can appraise the Sword of Trial!?」
「It’s a trial the seems to be impossible for a normal person, but if it’s me, I think I can probably clear it.」
When I said so, Masamune-san’s eyes shone with shing.
「I see! It seems you can clear it, huh! n.o.body has been able to clear the trials beyond this so far. What will the next stage be, I’m looking forward to it.」
When Masamune-san said so, he foolishly laughed out loud and patted me on the back with bon bon!
It hurts!
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I went back home to fetch Aya, Elena, Hilda and Mai-san up and went to Lella’s place.
By the way, I haven’t explained it to Yurie-san yet, so I have her wait at home.
「Seiji, you came. Finally, it’s the decisive battle with the Devil race. Let’s all return home safely!」
Is Lella nervous?
「By the way, have the members, who are going together with us today, been decided?」
「Yeah, first, Lyle Gewalt-otou-sama.」
Eh? That fellow is coming, too?
He’s a hindrance, but……
「Then, Rondo Warstar-dono.」
Golden Armor Rondo, huh.
That fellow isn’t strong, too, right?
Well, he’s better than Lyle Gewalt.
「Then, Bunmi-dono from the Demon race’s side.」
Lella let the Demon race’s side know, too, huh.
Well, since Bunmi-san is quite strong, he will be useful than the other two.
「The rest are Rachel and Misha as Rondo-dono’s companions and Ca.s.sandra as Bunmi-dono’s companion. Those are all this time’s partic.i.p.ants.」
All members of the Magician Unit have gathered, huh.
「By the way, where are the people in question?」
「They’re still on standby at their respective towns, getting ready?」
I’m going to fetch each of them up, huh……
Well, it can’t be helped.
I went to each partic.i.p.ants and brought them all at Lella’s mansion.
「Seiji-sama, thank you for your hard work.」
Oh boy, just by gathering the partic.i.p.ants, I became mentally fatigued, but thanks to Elena’s worries, my willpower somehow recovered.
「Oi, Seiji. Since I’d like to have a conversation with Bunmi-dono, be the interpreter.」
Lyle Gewalt smugly ordered.
「Hand over a billion Aurum as the interpretation fee!」
「Ku-, this money monger!」
Are you an idiot?
Do you even understand what the unit [billion] is?
This fellow doesn’t seem to understand that I’m telling him [I don’t want to].
Since it can’t be helped, I gave Bunmi-san a [Temporary Language Acquisition Magic Stone+2] and had him acquire the [Dolaidos Common Language].
「Lyle Gewalt, you will be able to have a talk with him with this. Talk to Bunmi-san directly.」
「O-, Ou.」
Huh? Lyle Gewalt looks a little strange.
Although he’s having a talk with Bunmi-san, he looks fearful for some reason.
Aha, this fellow Lyle Gewalt is scared of the Demon Bunmi-san.
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Well, as it became a situation where everyone could talk to each other, we started a strategy meeting.
After showing everyone several videos being taken by the [Tracking Beacon] flying around the Devil race’s town, I explained the situation.
「The problem is the [POW camps], we can’t make move as long as they are being held hostage. To start with, we have to do something from there.」
「Ah!」
Bunmi-san, who was looking at the videos, unintentionally raised a cry.
It was a small number, but Demons being forced to work as slaves, too, were seen.
Devils like slavery this much…..
The strategy meeting progressed and finally, the content of the strategy was decided.
The 3 POW camps are areas A, B and C.
A is the biggest and the place where there are Demons being detained, too.
B and C contain only humans, but these places are apart from each other.
The strategy is to first rescue the hostages at these 3 areas and to start the battle after that.
「Well then, the 3 people for area A are Bunmi-san, Ca.s.sandra-san and Hilda, Aya for area B and Mai-san for area C. You will sneak in while hiding with [Invisibility]. Everyone, understood?」
「Seiji-dono, is it alright for Aya-san and that little miss to go alone?」
Rondo raised an objection.
「Rondo, Aya and Mai-san are much stronger than you, you know?」
Well, just them should be enough to protect the hostages until I start rescuing the hostages with [Teleportation].
「Then, I volunteer to take on the [decoy role] on behalf of Aya-san.」
Rondo wanted to show his good side to Aya and proposed something strange.